[SUBMISSION] Blood Maykr

Name: Blood Maykr
Difficulty: Medium
Connections: None
Summon: BloodMaykr
Melee: No
Distance: Projectile
Type: Demon Cybernetic, Maybe Undead and Alien if you think too much lol.
Brightmaps: No
Actor modification: No
ACS: No

Credits:
Code: Ak47fu2 and Werlyñakadera (Ak47fu2 made DECORATE and Werlyñakadera made SNDINFO)
Sounds: Id Software, Bethesda, and Evil Banana 202 (ripped sounds and put them in a yt video).
Sprites: Mryayayify, Id Software, and Bethesda
Idea Base: Doom Eternal Blood Maykr

Description:A simplified Blood Maykr that just shoots and doesn't have that annoying shield.

First off, the pk3 has the same folder structure issue as the Carcass. Rename the folders to fix this.

I gotta be honest, this one is quite underwhelming. I don't mind simplified but it's too simple of a monster that's supposed to be a miniboss, and it behaves nothing like the Doom Eternal Bloodmaykr.

Some suggestions to make him behave more like the original:

• increase movement speed
• add ability to fly
• make him shoot bursts of several fireballs instead of just one
• give the fireballs a random spread so they are harder to dodge
• increase fireball speed

Also I noticed that during the attack animation, the "muzzeflash" frame doesn't sync up with the projectile spawn, it is played too late after the projectile was already fired.

I will fix the folders. I tried giving him the ability to fly but it looked really wierd when he flys to the top of a map, I am not sure how to put a limit on how high he can fly. Making him and the fireballs faster is a good idea and I will do that soon. I will try making him shoot more fireballs aswell. I will also fix the muzzleflash frame. Thanks

"I am not sure how to put a limit on how high he can fly"

This would be really easy to do in Zscript and it probably can be done in Decorate too, but I have no idea how. Decorate is a serious downgrade for me at this point so I'm sorry that I can't help there.

Its okay.

Alright so I decided to get off my lazy ass and start fixing all the stuff lol. I also added some other stuff to make him a bit different. How is he now?

Not a fan of the permanent reflect tbh. This will just make him a big annoyance because half of all weapons won't work at all. Imho reflect should be restricted to a shield effect or something like that.

But I like the improved attack (maybe still add some random spread?) and that he can fly now. I was thinking, maybe it would be cool to have him hover up and down? ThrustThingZ could do it, kinda like this
This would also prevent him from drifting off like those damn cacodemons love to do.

Hmm. I will add the ThustThingZ. Any idea if there is a way to make the reflect/deflect only work on rockets and not plasma weapons or should I just remove it all together?

Pretty sure it's possible with zscript to reflect only certain projectiles, but I think it would be better to make Reflect a temporary effect that activates only once in a while (for example when entering the pain state) and wears off after a few seconds. Also, and this is really important imo, there needs to be some kind of tell that Reflect is active. Like a sprite or palette change, particle fx etc. Looking at the DE Bloodmaykr he starts to glow in a golden light when his shield is active, maybe you can do something like that.

I think I will just remove it entirely. I do not want to see that annoying yellow shield lol